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Empathy

What is empathy?Empathic phenomena Emotional contagion Affective empathy Cognitive empathy, or perspective taking Sympathy or empathic concern How empathy is measured Take-home message Note Further readings References Empathy and understanding others Knowing other minds Simulation and pretending to be someone else Mirror neurons and low-level simulation Putting the ‘perspective’ back into perspective taking Introspection, perspective, and self-understanding Can we ever really understand others from the inside?What about transformative experience?Take-home message Notes Further readings References Empathy and feeling for and with others Vicarious affect Empathic affect Empathy and personal distress in psychology Sympathy Acting together: the origin of vicarious affect Cooperation and the evolution of sympathy Against sharing Take-home message Further readings References Empathy and morality Fellow feeling, or sympathy, in Hume and Smith Modern views Criticisms of the moral import of empathy The empirical evidence Defending empathy Cautious conclusions about empathy and morality Take-home message Note Further reading References Empathy and art Einfühlung Re-enactment of the inorganic Emotional contagion of expression Empathizing with characters Empathy with the artist Sentimental education Take-home message Further reading References Empathy and mental disorder Mental disorder and learning from it Psychopaths and affective responses Psychopaths and cognitive empathy Autism and empathic responses Autism and moral outlook Degrees of empathy Take-home message Note Further readings References The future of empathy studies The empathy process Empathy = fear and avoidance?Other overlooked features of empathy: perspectives and sharing Take-home message References Glossary

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